People v. Deas
This text of 59 A.D.2d 660 (People v. Deas) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered October 31, 1974, convicting defendant after jury trial of robbery, first and second degrees, and possession of a weapon as a felony, unanimously modified, on the law, to dismiss the robbery second degree and weapon counts, and otherwise affirmed. On the facts of this case, the defendant could not have committed the robbery, first degree, without committing robbery in the second degree and possessing the weapon. Where the verdict is comprised of inclusory concurrent counts, a verdict of guilty on the greater is deemed a dismissal of the lesser counts (People v Orr, 59 AD2d 600; People v Blake, 58 AD2d 757; People v Buchanan, 57 AD2d 781; People v Diaz, 56 AD2d 557). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Birns, Capozzoli and Markewich, JJ.
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59 A.D.2d 660, 398 N.Y.S.2d 283, 1977 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13573, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/people-v-deas-nyappdiv-1977.